Word: panamanian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Panamanian freedom fighter...
Over the Bounding Main. Delfino became intrigued by the possibilities of Down Under livestock in 1957, made a deal with the New Zealand government to ship 1,500 steers to the U.S. He chartered an old coal-burning British banana boat with a Panamanian registry, a Filipino captain, Australian officers, Chinese crewmen and Indian and Filipino herdsmen to handle the cattle. But he was in trouble before he cleared port...
Lining the zone boundary, 2,000 rioters burned two Uncle Sams in effigy, screamed insults, hurled rocks. As night fell, Panamanian National Guard reinforcements gradually forced the rioters back, and U.S. searchlights flicked on. Five hours later, shaky peace returned...
...approval of the clique of rich bluebloods who control Panama's government and businesses. Over the radio and in newspapers, they deliberately stirred up greater hatred for the U.S. after the Nov. 3 riots. Easily swaying the ignorant, ragged masses of the lower classes, the "oligarchy" (in the Panamanian expression) set out to force concessions from the U.S., chiefly greater purchases of zone supplies from Panamanian merchants, a bigger rental for the Canal Zone...
...State Department troubleshooter, from Washington. Merchant's answer rocked them back on their heels. He merely reaffirmed Panama's "titular sovereignty" over the zone (as William Howard Taft had done 50 years before) and promised that zone commissaries would adopt a policy of buying only U.S. or Panamanian products-as soon as "normal conditions" were restored. Then he went home, leaving Panama to face the prospect of a mob action all too likely to be turned back on the "oligarchs" themselves...